Article 1
The Commission hereby gives its agreement to exempt until 31 December 2009 from vehicle tax in accordance with Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC the following vehicles of 12 tonnes or more, which are used exclusively for the carriage of permanently installed equipment for public and industrial works in France: 1. Self-propelled lifting and handling gear (cranes mounted on road chassis); 2. Mobile pumps or pumping stations permanently mounted on road chassis; 3. Mobile motor compressor sets permanently mounted on road chassis; 4. Concrete mixers and pumps permanently mounted on road chassis (except drum vehicles for transporting concrete); 5. Mobile generating sets permanently mounted on road chassis; 6. Mobile drilling machines permanently mounted on road chassis.